NAPOWRIMO Splatterings 4-14: Obligatory

This is an obligatory poem
I made a commitment
to write one every day
Some things you do just to honor a promise
To yourself
So you feel better in retrospect

NAPOWRIMO Splatterings 4-13: The Core

Rented room in my skull
My mind is a ball of rubber bands
Assembled by a child
With the strength of adult hands
I shoot ideas that leave
Small welts on your face
Mostly on your eyes and lips
And all points in between
You are surprised at the moments chosen
You know the tenacity of some children
When it comes to complication
As you dig deeper you find
A foil ball in the center
Wrapped around
The blind splendor
Of intentions

NAPOWRIMO Splatterings 4-12: Mental Cleansing

"A good laugh or a good cry cleanse the mind"
So I've been told by the fortunate kind
Who possess far less jadedness than I
And it's for me to test, in serious jest
Whether their deep vision is blind
"If I announce to you
My intention to
Cleanse your mind with Windex,
You would laugh
But when I produce the blue cleaner
You'd change your demeanor
As I scrub the inside of your skull
Surely, you would then cry
And in the end your mind is cleansed...
But what truly cleansed your mind?
The laughter?
The crying?
The Windex?"

NAPOWRIMO Splatterings 4-11: Positive Attitude

Rattling days lead to
Roaring ways as I wake
Upon the notice of gas powered birds
The sounds I hear at 6:12
Provide the white noise backdrop
Through a day of runny nose and stubbed toes
Paper cuts and blind spot dwellers
All to the syncopated beat of propellers
A white noise that makes those things
All the easier to forget about tomorrow

NAPOWRIMO Splatterings 4-10: Monumental

The war is over and the eulogy is read
Beneath tides of clover, I dwell among the dead
And since inside of you I've died
You'll be sure my bones have dried
Before you arrange them into their new context
And remember our names are carved on every one
My incarnate form did fail you
But now no longer nailed to
The flesh of the past
My spirit is cast into a memorial pillar
Very phallic indeed announces its intention
Through persistence we dispense with all forms of pretense
If you exchange your eyes with mine, we'll realize our souls intertwine
And on the day you intersect with me, dead I will no longer be
Our monument slides easily into your valley of life
And through your cleansing clenching drenching screams of all forms of "Gloria!"
Transfer to stone all former strife
And perhaps lost in your state of euphoria
You swear the stone memorial just moved inside of you
This is that which monuments dream
To return to the mortal stream
To be no longer made of stone, to float
By your side and not once again
But in uninterrupted love that always mends

NAPOWRIMO Splatterings 4-9: Road Radish

You must be a garnish
A radish recently in distress
Now a putrescent radish on hot sidewalk
Close to a fine restaurant
Your elaborately cut design muddled and brown
Folds of flesh intermingled unwillfully
We all know what sticking a fork in you
Or interviewing you between our teeth feels like
We've all been that hungry at some point
What would a perfect moment be
Without you there to remind us
That we know what it feels like

NAPOWRIMO Splatterings 4-8: Nothing as it Appears, Everything That Is

There, there you'll find a vibrating string
Bound at the ends as they pull and release
Frantically trying to keep the same pitch
In a world in constant flux
The string struggles to remain
Vibrating words swollen shut with pride
Pride made possible by ineluctable changes
Changes the string vibrates against
Against change to maintain one tone
One tone of deconstructing om
Om that funnels life into a line
Lines for rationalization
Unrelenting death and decay
But here, here you'll find another string
A string acknowledging everything
Everything including the other string
That string of doubt, expectations and blame
But this string lets its pitch change
The pitch change disintegrates and discorporates blame
As conspicuously as the other string creaks and tightens,
His tones harmonize in the song of life
Reacting to compliment change
Then changing to compliment reactions
Reactions that have no end